NTT DoCoMo Ramps Up the Linux Mobile Platform Battle

"There are at least three contenders jostling for a share of the growing market for Linux-based mobile device platforms. Now giant Japanese cellular operator, NTT DoCoMo, is throwing its weight behind a fourth.

"Access Co Ltd, a Japanese global provider of software technologies to mobile markets, has signed an MoU with NTT DoCoMo, NEC, Panasonic Mobile Communications and Esteemo under which the companies will study the use of the Access Linux Platform (ALP) as the basis for developing a shared Linux platform for mobile phones and an operator pack for NTT DoCoMo..."

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